Sweet Dreams-30...Oh Crap! WTF?
Chapter 30
*Alex…
Fuck things happened so fast…
Hunter and I were just…we were right in the middle of a moment. We hadn’t thought that the girls had came up the stairs. It’s just we’re not used to having company and never even thought.
When Jen overheard and dropped the water bottle….
She looked from me to Hunter to me….then there were these huge tears that just poured out and she took off at a run. I went after her because she might have told, said something…and there was also the fact.
I’ve known Jen for years and she’s a tough often cold girl…a lot of the kids in my life, where and how we’ve grown up are like that. You have to be to survive. You have to have thick skin.
I’ve never seen her look that just…Hurt…before…not even when she found out her parents were getting divorced.
She took the stairs and I took the air jumping down to catch her and…shit…ow. I twinged something doing that but I got her arm and pulled her back and she spun and Jen hauled off and punched me screaming, just hitting me over and over again and losing her shit until I grabbed her other arm and she screamed.
“Let me go!, Let me go!, Let me fucking go!”
“Jen, Jen stop please stop.”
“Stop! You’re gay!, no wonder we broke up Jesus Alex no wonder you didn’t want me!”
“I’m not gay…Me, Hunter it’s complicated…”
“You’re fucking her…him…whatever.”
“We make love yes, but Hunter’s…she’s special…I love her.”
“BUT SHE’S A FUCKING BOY!” She screams and starts struggling again. “You love her, you love her? She’s a boy!, Why? Why the fuck is she so fucking special!? Why do you love her and not me!? Am I that fucking broken!?”
Adam came out or was there at some point and April soon came out and looked worried…no freaked but worried and after her last cried out question Jen’s sobbing and still struggling and she does that girl legs giving out sliding down my car thing and Adam’s looking at me with this stare.
“Alex…you want to tell me what’s really going on here.”
“Dad, not now.”
“Alex…I’m not asking.”
“Dad….”
“No, I need to know what’s going on…what’s been going on under my roof.”
“Dad…”
Then we heard Cindy scream.
“SOMEBODY HELP!”
I let go of Jen and run up the stairs with scared to death images of Hunter doing something stupid like…mom…and I see Cindy on her knees in the kitchen with a cup towel to Hunters face and there’s blood everywhere and she looks at me eyes wide with panic.
“Alex! Alex she…she just started getting this nosebleed and it…won’t stop she…she looked at me and went pale and…”
I’m checking her breathing and she still alive and I hold her and try to stop the bleeding but every time I get the towel away there’s this second of nothing them the blood starts to run again. Not drips or a slow flow but bleeding…really bleeding. I’m trying, the cup towel, paper towels… “C’mon Hunter…please don’t…please baby don’t do this…for the love of god please don’t leave me…”
I’m start to get scared. “HUNTER!” I shout at her trying desperately to get through to her.
“Hunter C’mon wake up! Come on.”
Her head lolls like she’s drunk. “Alex?”
“Yes baby it’s me c’mon.”
“You’re real?”
“Yes I’m real, I’m real and I love you!”
“Here.” Dad’s beside me.
Hunter tries to move wake up. “Adam…”
She blacks out again going limp.
“Alex, get your keys.” Adam…dad…
“Alexander, get your car keys!” he yelled it and he punches me in my arm snapping me out of it.
“I’ve got them.”
I pick her up and head to the downstairs of the garage to the car and for a minute there’s me not thinking.
“Give her to me Alex.”
“Dad…”
“Give her to me and shut up and drive.”
“Dad?”
“Now Alexander.”
He shouts for Mom to follow in his card with the girls.
Jen looks freaked and is being held by Mom and I hear “hunter…? Hunter?”
The rest of things get blurry with me trying to drive and me trying to keep trying to see if Hunter’s okay but keeping my eyes on the road and not shaking or freaking out.
Yeah freaking out…I had her blood making the steering wheel tacky and I’m driving faster than I ever had and dad’s telling me to run through the lights.
And I don’t hear it all but I hear Dad saying thing that I never thought I heard him say.
We went and we carried her to a gurney? And they run with her to the ER and like on TV we get pushed out of the area and there’s an area where we’re supposed to wait where I’m pacing and pacing…and shaking.
*Jennifer…
Oh my god.
What have I done?
What have I done? I completely freaked out when I found out. There was this hit to something inside of me. And I…I lost it. Her being a guy? Alex choosing her over me? It was like there was something was wrong with me and that little perfectionist bitch Mom clone in me couldn’t handle it.
Couldn’t keep it in.
And I outed her.
Him.
I can’t even see Hunter as a him, there’s just nothing there that says him other than her being a bony, skinny little twat.
Twat…see, even in my head insulting her I can’t shake the herness. Fact is Hunter screams waif.
And even not telling me, even with something this big she’s still that real true blue friend that has always told me as it was…except for that…
And I outed her.
And she’s had another attack…what if it’s her heart? Or a stroke? Or….
God what if I killed her?
Cindy gets me into the car and pulls me into her lap and holds me tight. “I…I…I might of well have shot her.”
“Jen, this isn’t your fault.”
“It is I outed her….” (sniffle-whine.)
“We knew.” Alex’s step-mom says as we’re driving.
“What?” (confused sniffle-whine.)
“We knew, I put things together the night of the dinner party…I’ve known some girls but none like Hunter. Between the supper and the shopping and some little things it was just more and more something I suspected and then Adam found out some things and well we knew…or we were sure of it.”
Cindy asks. “So why have you guys been cool with it? So Alex doesn’t get outed?”
“That was part of it and some other things but Adam…Adam just hasn’t pulled the trigger yet…honestly after everything now…I don’t think that he will.”
I sniffle. “Good…I…I…I really don’t hate Hunter, I don’t.”
We get lots of looks when they get there and Alex is pacing and looking more freaked than I’ve ever seen him especially after his nightmares.
He hasn’t had the after nightmares look in awhile.
He doesn’t look mad at me. He doesn’t look like he hates me…he should this is my fault.
Adam gives me this look as his secretary is here and he’s changing from bloody clothes to clean ones. It’s that look that he’s always had about me except since Hunter helped me and got him to help me.
I’m right back to being the nasty little so and so again. I feel this hurt there growing like I’m losing something important…lost something important?
I just can’t…can’t…
I curl up into one of the love seats and Cindy sits in behind me and hugs me as the bawling starts and I can’t stop it.
*Hunter…
I must have been really sedated because I was out of it really bad when. I’m being moved and it makes me feel extra shitty woozy. “C’mon lets get him to x-ray.”
Him…they said him.
“Her, and do it again and there’ll be trouble.” Adam? Here? Defending me?
WTF?
“Sir you can’t be here unless you’re family.”
“I’m better than family, I’m her power of attorney.”
“Yeah, don’t fuck with my lawyer.”
“Young lady, the Dr. said to keep quiet and calm.”
“Better.” Adam says.
I’m taken to Radiology and they get me on this table, oh when they don’t want you to move but want you on that table the orderlies move you with the sheets.
The thing is uncomfortable as hell.
Adam’s getting into the apron thingy. I look at him. “I wonder how much radiation this thing’s soaked up over the years?”
He gives me one of his looks.
“What?”
“Not funny.”
I stick my tongue out at him a little.
“You’re pretty calm considering everything Hunter.”
“It feels like valium…something else too…”
“Still with everything that’s happened…”
I bite my lip and try not to cry but they come anyway and he comes over and takes my hand. “I am scared, God Adam I’m f..ffucking terrified, I’ve got more to lose now than I…I..ever had….God…fuck!…I’ve never had anything to lose before.”
“You’re not going to lose anything Hunter.”
“But…But…”
“No…no butts, I’m not ready to hear about my son’s sex life.”
I laugh… “Ow……..”
“Take it easy.”
“Why are you being so good to me?”
“I’ve seen some of those scars…I have some of those scars.”
“You do?”
“Irish Cop’s kid and the smallest and the mouthiest too…lots of drinking and fighting…my Dad was one of those guys who didn’t turn it off when he got home…I…(rough cough.) lets just say I get it.”
I reach out to him and take his hand and we look at each other a lot as I go through the stuff they want me to do and it’s all good except for when they isolate my head and do a very close up series of my head. It’s not scary but who’s comfortable with x-ray machines right?
I hear I mean we hear. “Jesus Christ, who the hell did this.”……Several times. And I hear “Call the police.”
“Oh fuck.”
Adam squeezes my hand. “You need to tell them what happened Hunter.”
“No, no I don’t.”
“Yes.”
“No.”
“Billy…”
“……………………….” Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck….. “Don’t call me that…please…Will died when the left him for dead….”
“Hunter….then, that’s fine okay?”
The E.R. Doc and another one is there too after awhile and there’s more x-rays, a break, then the actual Lab tech comes in and draws more blood as if I haven’t lost enough of it and then lots and lots of water and some more drugs.
No peeing, more water…then an ultrasound then another ride but this time to a hospital room. Adam’s talking with the Doctors then goes to tell the others.
I hate this, I hate the waiting.
It was a lot better after they let me pee.
And the real bed, well real sorta bed compared to the slabs I’ve been on. I sink into it with a sigh and wait.
Then I see the others with Adam, April, Alex…(happy sigh)…Alex…and he’s cleaned up but you can tell he’s been through thing rough..ha..ha..oh yeah that’s me.
Cindy and Jennifer are there too, Jen won’t even look me in the eyes…every time she gets that close she starts having to wipe tears away.
April’s the first one in and she hugs me. “I’m so glad you’re okay honey!” I get another hug and she holds me a bit only moving for Alex who sits on the bed and kisses me. Long sweet deep over and over kisses until there’s some coughing from Adam.
“The doctors are here.”
Alex looks at me. “We’ll leave if you want us too hon…”
“No…” I look to the doctors. “Is it okay that they stay?”
“If it’s fine with you Miss it’s fine with us.”
They do something with this laptop on a portable wheeled stand and there’s my x-rays on the screen.
The E.R. Doc starts in. “We’ve taken several close looks and the primary problem we’ve found is there’s several pieces of glass that have somehow been lodged in the sinus area given the uhm…well miss frankly given the abuse you’ve survived this could have killed you pretty easily.”
“Okay….so I’m lucky…?”
“Very, a blow with just the right force could have the glass sever several blood vessels that you would have bled to death from. As it is the way that you body tenses and responds to stress has been occasionally sawing on those blood vessels, along with you blood pressure has been causing these nosebleeds.”
“So….can it be fixed?” April asks.
“Actually yes Dr. Hill here is the Plastic surgeon on call and…” He nods to the other doctor. She nods too. “Oh yes, we can go in and get all of this removed, you shouldn’t have any more effects afterwards than a rhinoplasty patient.”
“Oh…cool…When?”
“As soon as possible but we’d also like to address the secondary issue as well.”
Adam asks. “Secondary issue? There’s another problem?”
They both look uncomfortable ad Dr. Hill looks at me. “This is rather delicate, are you sure you want everyone here to hear this?”
“Yeah…It’s okay, we might as well. I don’t have anymore secrets anymore.”
Adam looks at me with this…oh really…look on his face. I look down and blush a bit.
She asks again. “Are you sure Miss Williams?”
“Yeah, I’m sure.”
She types and other x-rays come up on the screen. “When we were looking for other damage and while we did find things that as doctors just…(She looks pissed.)…well we saw some masses that we wanted to check over again just to rule out things.”
“Like…?” I ask.
“Well like cancer or anything else.”
“Cancer…” My mouth’s gone dry and April hugs me. “We’ll get through it Hunter…”
Dr. Hill looks at us. “It’s not cancer.”
“Then what is it?” Adam asks.
“See here, this space, this, and this and this?”
We all kind of nod on the edge of our seats.
“This is your uterus, and cervix and vaginal canal.”
“Huh! What the fuck?” I sit up further staring at the screen.
“Miss Williams you are not a regular male, you’re what we call intersexed you present as a male for the most basic part but you’re in fact female from your bone structure to the actual formation of your sex organs.”
“But…but I’ve never had a period.”
“You don’t have any ovaries we’re afraid and you’re really deficient in both hormones and suffering long term damage from malnutrition.”
“But my guy stuff.”
“Semi functional but if you were functioning properly there you’d be far more developed as a male.”
“So I’m a girl?”
“Yes with some extra bits and some missing bits but yes, you’ve always beef a girl.”
………………………..
………………………..
I can’t help it but start to laugh and laugh and laugh.
Fuck you Cliff…I’m so not a fag.
Oh god just picturing….I can’t stop laughing.
It’s a little crazy sounding too and Jen starts too join me with this also little bit out there giggle then we’re both laughing. We’re the only ones laughing but we just can’t stop. I hit her arm.
“Bitch.”
She hits me back. “Cunt.”
“Douche.” I hit her again.
She giggles out. “Twat.”
We laugh and giggle and then we’re holding each other. Then we’re crying and holding each other.
Comments
“So I’m a girl?â€
oh wow. And I love Adam's defense of her ....
Yes she is:)
Adam was very good through this, but Adam as we see has history too.
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Bailey...A Proud Supporter of Team Dorothy:)
Bailey Summers
Bailey. Has someone chained
Bailey. Has someone chained you to your computer? I mean, these quick, fast punches are fantastic, but you do need to get some sleep. :-)
Another great chapter. They really have bonded as a family.
Yeah I need sleep too but this just wouldn't get out of my head.
So....
No Sleep.
Thanks Brian it's good to hear from you again:)
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Bailey.
Bailey Summers
go ahead, keep punching me in the heart
i can take it *sniffle* wow... massive kleenex alert... you just keep making us cry...
Thank you Bailey
Love you brother,
Moon
I'm so Happy that came out right Moon:)
I should have put up a bigger tissue alert on this though. I loved your comment opening line just...awesome.
You're Welcome Little Sister:)
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Bailey.
Bailey Summers
Wow, could this news have
Wow, could this news have been better, I wonder if Jen, Cindy or April will donate eggs. Although the glass thing is dangerous it can at least be fixed, also the news Hunter is inter-sexed is like the best news ever, mainly because it sounds like they can fix her as female fairly quickly without requiring too much mental health support, although she'll probably need psychiatric support for the PTSD.
In many ways I feel she's been lucky, I'm not sure I want to even consider what Cliff would have done if she'd been a girl from the beginning, the possibilities make me shudder with revulsion. At least Jen's back as her friend, I was worried at first but Jen obviously wasn't liking herself over her immediate response to Hunter's gender, I wonder how she'll cope at finding Cindy loves her? Lets hope she takes it better (sniggers)
I take back every mean thing I thought about Adam, yes he can be a b'stard but when you get down to basics he's nothing like he appears, obviously there is so much more to this guy than I could of imagined, he has what appears to be a rather large tender side. His current treatment of Hunter, the reassurance that no matter what she's family well as Diana said *sniffle* God I want his babies, now we can see why April loves him. It's seems under all the attitude there's a man with a heart after all.
I wonder how much of his past is known to Alex, does Alex have any clue his dad was abused like Hunter, either way thanks Bailey for showing Adam is an onion.
Great story, spectacular chapter as always I'm left wanting more, but thats a good thing :P
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Lizzie :)
Bailey's Angel
The Godmother :p
I might just have to use that Lizzie;)
While bad that might make a good nightmare. No Alex has no idea that his dad has been through stuff either and that can be loads of stuff for the story. He's so tightly wound and in control that he doesn't shine a lot...he's got no idea how to. Then there will be PTSD stuff to deal with for Hunter just lots of good stuff.
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Bailey:)
The Godfather;)
Bailey Summers
Oh Crap! WTF?
Oh Gawd. After these last three chapters, I'm emotionally wrung out. But in a good way! I knew we were heading for a lot of this stuff, but how you brought us there was brilliant.
I have to stock up on tissues again when I go shopping, though. God, I'm a blubbery mess. Trying to read through the tears was hard. But harder was laughing through the tears when I got to lines like:
"I can’t even see Hunter as a him, there’s just nothing there that says him other than her being a bony, skinny little twat."
I could just imagine Jennifer thinking that. I'm glad she realized fast that her freak out and outing of Hunter was the OLD Jennifer, the pre-Hunter bitch model.
Wow, there's a lot of other stuff I want to say, but I feel like I need to sleep for ten hours...
I love you and I love your writing, my friend. Like Shakespeare did in his day, you have an instinctive perception into the human heart. Even into us strange and mysterious transgender folk, many of whom don't even understand ourselves. Not me, of course, but you know, others... *wink*
All your series are good, but this is easily my favorite. (I wouldn't mind seeing Snakes and Ladders a little more often though...) Keep up the great Story Telling.
*snotty hugs and stuff*
(cuz I'm out of tissues)
Dani
Well with ten hours of sleep I hope you have Sweet Dreams Dani:)
I'm so glad that the last three chapters have been that good and are leading the story into new things and challenges even if we all have ideas of where things are going. Thank you for the really wonderful comment and the compliments and the support Dani they mean so much to me.
I'll try to get back to some S&L soon:)
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Bailey.
Bailey Summers
Hoping I have Sweet Dreams...
Well, with the goodnight kiss someone gave me when she went to bed, I'm sure I will. So that's where I'm heading now.
Patiently waiting for the next chapters. Getting whatever surgeries she needs to be healthy, explaining her story to her new family when she is finally comfortable enough, getting her legal status as a girl legitimized (with Adam's help, no doubt) since she is intersex, finding out more about Cliff and birth mom, getting back to school with Alex and Jen and Cindy, etc... I'm sure the excitement's not over.
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Lees
Just... Wow!
Its hard to say more than that really.
Thank you.
That's more than enough:)
Thanks so much Abby:)
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Bailey.
Bailey Summers
Yay! Hunter gets to be what
Yay! Hunter gets to be what she wants!
Another good story Bailey *Hugs*
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Have a mew of a day!
Yes there's yayness for Hunter:)
Now only if she can handle being a girl for real.
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Bailey.
Bailey Summers
Tough
Hunter is that. Otherwise she wouldn't have survived at all. However, just like her abused body there is a lot of scar tissue. Opening up about it all is going to be a real issue for her. The cops are going to be involved here, but seeing how Cliff and that drug ridden woman who birthed her is living on the hind end of society I can't see them being found.
Then there is her physical problems. Starting HRT is going to be a real challenge with the other health problems.
If that wasn't enough there's the PTSD. And just to keep things rolling Hunter had really only recently accepted just how much of a 'she' she is at heart. As many of us know, the 'getting' is a whole lot different from the 'wanting.'
And those are just the easy things to see!
However, for the first time in her life she has a honest to goodness family that loves her. That's all of her dreams right there even if I hadn't read The Christmas Story. :)
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Grover
Thanks Grover and You're right...
There's a lot of stuff, a mountain of stuff that Hunter still has to go through and it's not going to be easy. With this part sort of getting resolved just how much can she hold things in...if she lets her girl self out even more how will the abuse hit her. There's so much that she have yet to face.
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Bailey.
Bailey Summers
interesting developments
so will they try to do both surgeries at once or fix the life threating one and try to get her heathly before they go after the other issue?
great but nerve wracking chapter. I suspected Adam had run background checks on her, I don't know what he found, she was so far off the grid and covered her track very well too.
thanks
There's stuff he knows and stuff he doesn't but
They had enough to get a really good picture so when Jen outed her they we're to surprised. The doctors will do the surgery to remove the glass first then they might have her there for observation and more tests while sorting things out and trying to treat some of her health issues from the malnutrition.
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Bailey.
Bailey Summers
Even when Hunter gets good news it comes with a price
FABOO bunch of chapters of late BTW.
!!! SPOILERS OF A SORT FOLLOW !!!
So NOW we know what is behind both the nose bleeds and Hunter's feminine body.
Seems to me Adam has decided Hunter IS the right person for his son. The Step Shit and Mommy Druggie are in it deep now since the doctors and Adam know what they did to Hunter. Felony child abuse charges for the injuries/abandonment/malnutrition at least I wager. And Adam WILL find them dead or alive. Low life slime they may be but Adam IS an Irish cops son after all and has the scars to prove it.
Mind you I suspect Step Shit and Mommy Druggie may well be dead. They took all of Hunter's cash and might have scored an OD... Who knows?
Poor Hunter, gets a large part of her dreams yet with a price, being barren/sterile. But then she is in love with Alex so that implied no children by Hunter. Still worry like others here about the long term effects of the abuse/injuries and malnutrition at critical ages. Can Hunter ever live a long and healthy life?
But perhaps Hunter's terrible childhood is why she has made the few but intense friendships he/she has, her extreme will to live. Her take no shit attitude tempered by her returning love with love.
This is intense.
John in Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa
Great sort of spoilers John.
You're right on so many things like the Police will be involved and I will be visiting how and why Adam knows and hasn't dropped the hammer on her. But...as for why Adam made the choice to accept her. One he actually likes her and they have a Lot in common plus Alex...he might get Alex back, it's very different and better right now than it's...than it's ever been.
And the way Alex talked...He really loves her, and that's a huge thing for Adam...even he can see they love each other and that there's no bullshit.
A Huge thing for Adam.
I'm really glad that the last few chapters have been intense and rewarding.
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Bailey.
Bailey Summers
And the hits keep on coming!
Did anyone get the number of that truck that just ran over my emotions? All I remember is it was three chapters long...
That was quite a wild emotional ride. Adam somehow knows an awful lot about Hunter and I have the feeling that if things hadn't played the way they had at the restaurant then Hunter & Alex would be in a very different situation. Luckily, Hunter stood up for Alex and tried to bring the family together and we're where we are. :-)
I was a little surprised at how much April knew about what Adam knew about Hunter. I'd assumed Adam had kept her in the dark about a lot of his plotting and stuff. I just hope April's influence was one of the reasons why he didn't drop the hammer on Hunter. Of course a lot of it is irrelevant now given the news about Hunter's intersex condition and I loved how Jen and Hunter patched things up.
A fantastic trilogy of chapters Bailey! Thank you so much for sharing them. You can get some sleep now!!
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"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
I'm going to put a lot of the why's of Adam's choices in...
The upcoming chapters and I'm not going to leave it in the dark besides if she doesn't find out it'll drive Hunter nuts. there's a lot more to do with all these things and everything. I'm really so glad that you and everyone enjoyed this.
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Bailey.
Bailey Summers
Intense!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry I couldn't stop for a comment for a while. It was just too
intense to not keep reading!! Now she will get the medical attention
she needs to be a girl!! Every one here's dream!!What the fuck did
Cliff do to her, glass in her nostrils!!! I hope he dies ans burns
in hell where he belongs!!! Also her "mom"!!
Pamela
It's pretty bad stuff Pamela what Cliff did.
But you'll find that scene for the glass in Powdered Sugar.
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Bailey Summers
And this is why I love your stories!
I'd never come across this story before today and I'm so glad I started reading it! It's a fantastic mix of hope and tragedy with some amazing characters and beautifully crafted story telling. I love it!
"The pen is mightier than the sword ... if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp"
Yay! I love when someone discovers Sweet Dreams.
It really is a great story and it’s pretty great in this whole emotional gambit whirlwind.
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Bailey Summers
Never turned it off
Hunter does need to tell how that glass ended up in her sinuses. And if it happens that scum for crap was responsible then the posse needs to find him.
It's very good that the doctors can remove the glass and she'll have no more unexplained nose bleeds. What else will they do now that they've discovered she's intersexed? Hormones? Proper diet and vitiamins? Maybe fixing the abnormality?
Hunter has shown both Alex and Adam how to face her past and spit in its eye. She has shown both the need to admit what happened and keep walking forward. Alex has never endured what Hunter and Adam experienced, but neither have they faced what Adam faced.
Adam faced what many faced, a dad who never turned back into a father when he got home. Not all end up with physical scars like Hunter and Adam, they still carry those scars with them.
Adam show how much he's come to love Hunter by the tears he quickly wiped at at the hospital. He now has a daughter which he will defend until the other person's death. Even a doctor's.
Others have feelings too.
Being intersexed
is a mainstay for story's on BC the ultimate in its not my fault! I am convinced all trans people are intersexed, The brain has sex and we are born with physical difference in the structure of our brains, not a choice but a minor birth defect if you will.One another front this will save Hunter oodles of problems. She doesn't have to go through the WPath bullshit. Now she can be legally who she is in every respect.
Except,
does Alex get charged with Statytoy rape? Oh boy.
And now this
couldn't have ended up any better, well, unless she would have had ovaries of her own. But if she does have a functioning womb, she could always undergo IVF.